The Biggest Idea in Development that No One Really Tried (video)

In this TED Talk-style presentation, CGD research fellow Michael Clemens exhibits his new research on the benefits of global migration.

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[WikiversityDiaspora]

The discussion is very good. The speaker should consider linking his view with the concept of charter city. There is already a debate about a own migration-development bank in the literature. We need to carry the debate further and link labor mobility with the body of work with respect to the migration-trade-development nexus. Convergence cannot be reached with labor mobility alone.

[Yeshua4Pearl]

Is he giving this speech because Obama wants to bring in more Muslim terrorists into the country? the ones that will come are not the ones who are entrenched in their society and have no reason to leave. and for those millions of Americans that he would like to relocate elsewhere--that is if this guy and Obama are consequent with their theology, which country would want them?

[Yeshua4Pearl]

Is he giving this speech because Obama wants to bring in more Muslim terrorists into the country? the ones that will come are not the ones who are entrenched in their society and have no reason to leave.

[Yeshua4Pearl]

He should get all the facts: In addition to the increase in immigrants leaving the United States, immigration to the United States has decreased in recent years. According to the U.S. Border Patrol, apprehensions of illegal immigrants were down 18 percent from 2006 and almost 40 percent from 2005. check the US immigration support organization

[Yeshua4Pearl]

.What theorists in Ivory Towers seems to have forgotten is that the U.S. we have 1 mill legals a year. this is not an informative message he is using the race card to persuade us to allow unlimited borders. Should study Ecuador as an experiment in labor mobility, with thousands of Colombians entering the country running away from communism and drugs, he's also promoting brain drain and no development to those countries

[Yeshua4Pearl]

. We do have a work visa program.Bush was stopped by liberals from expanding the work visa program. Another question, Mexicans and Cameron, would you give 1 million Americans your jobs?

[Emrys Landivar]

"Everything but labor" isn't everything but labor it doesn't include institution mobility.

[kulza23]

Down with restrictions on labor mobility!

[GreatGrumbledook]

... and will push back economics to the second place, where they belong."

And Oswald Spengler is indeed my other self, my counsel's consistory, my oracle, my prophet! And I, like a child, will go by his direction.

[GreatGrumbledook]

... the military means, will come into their own again. The more strongly armed power will force the weaker one to give up its economic defensive, capitulate, and disappear, Cannon are in the last resort stronger than coal. There is not telling how this economic war will end, but it is certain that it will finally restore to the State as authority its historical rights, based on voluntary, and therefore reliable, thoroughly trained, and highly mobile armies ...